Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whistled down on Germany and most Allied air pilots were aloft daily for as long as men & machines could endure. Reported killed in an accident during the week was Flying Officer Edgar James ("Cobber Kain "D. F. C., 22, of New Zealand. Prime Allied targets included oil depots at Hamburg and Kiel, factories in the Ruhr. A French naval formation for the first time let go explosives instead of literature near Berlin, in retaliation for the hundreds killed & wounded around Paris...
Weygand had no compensating means of distraction. The Germans' fuel supply was one vulnerable point, and R. A. F. bombers were sent again & again on carefully selected missions to bomb big oil depots at Cologne, Düsseldorf, Aachen, Hamburg. Hectoring the German supply line passing west between Bapaume-Cambrai and Amiens-Péronne, even if he could not break through, was urgent, and there Weygand massed artillery...
Meanwhile the British Air Command started something it had not tried in all the eight months of World War II: night bombing of military and industrial objectives in Germany. British Wellingtons, Whitleys and Hampdens raided far into Germany. Oil storage tanks in Hamburg and Bremen were destroyed, communications bombed up & down the Rhineland...
...Punishment For Treachery," imposing death as the penalty for serious cases of spying. Detectives this week were busy trying to catch up with quislings who plastered northeast London with stickers urging everyone to listen to "the new British broadcasting station" on a wave length which turned out to be Hamburg. The Churchill Cabinet, predicted leading British Communists, will shortly suppress the Communist Party. The Government decreed a $1,750 penalty for the new crime of exporting from the United Kingdom copies of either Action, the British Fascist weekly, or the Communist London Daily Worker...
Lord Haw-Haw, the mysterious Nazi propagandist with the frozen British accent, has had more than his share of 1940 Mother Goose. When British aircraft flew over Germany one night last week, Nazi transmitters (including Lord Haw-Haw's station at Hamburg) blanked out as usual so that their waves could not be used for directional purposes by the invaders. A BBC funster gibed: "He shouts with rage and screams with fear, but pipes down when our planes are near...